NoChillNerd's Den

Hi Dear Reader, It's Friday, time to sit down and do some writing. Hope everyone had a good week. Before I begin I just want to send my thoughts and prayers to the families affected by the FIU bridge collapse. It's a nightmare for everyone involved, but I know our strong community will push forward #FIUstrong ( Figure 1 ). This week's post comes in a week late, mostly because of a few small projects I'm working on (more on that on another post). As always, I hope you find comfort in this space. We will be building canals today! Figure 1 : #FIUStrong Today I want to talk about accepting ourselves. I know it sounds like another cliche mantra, but it gets interesting when you put some real thought to it. What does it mean to accept yourself, are you in control of it? What are the preconditions, if any exist? These questions have been around as long as we've been homo sapiens, but I've found it critical to at least begin to consider it because accepting...

Hi there dear reader, It's Friday, time to sit down and do some writing. I hope you're having a great week so far! As always I hope this space provides you with comfort. As you might have noticed, there was no post this past Tuesday. I've decided that from now on I will only post only on Friday's, mainly because writing these posts takes more time than I initially expected (Figure 1) . I'm thinking about starting a separate page on this blog for daily thoughts for the more spontaneous moments. I'll see how it goes.  Figure 1 : Seriously?  Anyways, today I want to talk about growing up. This particular theme came up during a meditation session, where I swam through my subconscious thoughts. I found many thoughts, but the thought of growing up was one of the dominant themes in my subconscious. At a closer inspection, I found that thought to be tied to quite a bit of fear . But how? A big part of being a child is looking forward to grow up like t...